Quotes about Vulnerability

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Courageous people are ordinary people like you and me who began at some point to face their fears rather than run from them.

My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.